On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent > > > introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the > > > output from "ls -l"? > > > > Let me google that for you: > > > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions > > a followup question would be, is there an ls option that would > *prevent* that security setting character from being printed? i ask > since i'm working with a software project (openembedded) that > specifically takes a mode setting in symbolic mode (from the output of > "ls -l"), and uses sed to translate it to numeric mode, and the script > to do that doesn't take into account that potential trailing period > and promptly converts, say, "-rwxr-xr-x." to the string "755.", which > then causes the subsequent call to install to crash with a bad numeric > mode argument. Not that I know of. The "What information is listed" node of the ls info pages describes the characters used to indicate alternate access methods when listing files with '-l' but does not mention a way to suppress this. Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
